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Radio 3 Live in Concert: BBC Proms 2011

Radio 3 Live in Concert: BBC Proms 2011: Last Night of the Proms

Last Night of the Proms

31/12/2011

BBC Proms 2011

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The 2011 Last Night of the Proms, featuring pianist Lang Lang and soprano Susan Bullock.

The 2011 Last Night of the Proms. Edward Gardner conducts performers including star pianist Lang Lang playing Liszt and soprano Susan Bullock singing Wagner.

BBC PROMS 2011

Recorded at the Royal Albert Hall, London in September

Presented by Sean Rafferty and Suzy Klein

Another chance to hear conductor Edward Gardner lead the traditional festivities of the Last Night of the Proms 2011. 

Gardner, who was the youngest Last Night conductor since Sir Henry Wood himself on the first Last Night in 1895, brings a youthful verve to the celebrations. He's joined by leading dramatic soprano Susan Bullock who performed Brunnhilde's famous 'Immolation Scene' which concludes Wagner's epic Ring cycle, as well as leading the customary communal singing after the Interval. Super-star pianist Lang Lang - the man who's inspired millions of Chinese children to take up the piano - performs Liszt, a composer who he describes as a "rock star" but also a "truly great musician" - words that could equally describe Lang Lang himself. 

Sir Peter Maxwell Davies: Musica benevolens 
Bartók: The Miraculous Mandarin - suite 
Wagner: Götterdämmerung - Immolation Scene 
Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E flat major
Chopin: Grande Polonaise brillante, Op. 22 
Grainger: Mo nighean dubh (My Dark-Haired Maiden)
Britten: The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra
Rodgers: The Sound of Music - 'Climb ev'ry mountain' 
Rodgers: Carousel - 'You'll never walk alone'
Elgar: Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 in D major ('Land of Hope and Glory')
Arne: Rule Britannia
Parry (orch. Elgar): Jerusalem 
The National Anthem

Lang Lang (piano)
Susan Bullock (soprano)
Jenny Agutter (narrator)
The Fanfare Trumpeters of the Household Division 
BBC Symphony Chorus 
BBC Symphony Orchestra 
Edward Gardner (conductor).

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Another chance to hear broadcasts of selected concerts from the 2011 BBC Proms season

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